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The breathings of true love from the immortal seed in the prisoner for the Lord, unto his people.
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Fox, George, d. 1661.
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Wing F1995; ESTC R28019
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The breathings of true Love from the Immortal Seed in the Prisoner for the Lord unto his People DEar Friends Brethren and Sisters in the Light called to be a people loved of God the Father in the Lord Iesus Christ Grace Love and Peace be multiplied amongst you through the abundant manifestation of the Spirit of Life proceeding from the Father and the Son My Children and beloved Friends the God of all truth hath appeared unto you in the everlasting Covenant of light and life visiting you in an acceptable day and time making known unto you his eternal Truth by the revelation of his mighty power in your mortal bodies whereby he brought you indeed to feel and know the miserable estate and condition that ye were in and he hath also given you to see him upon whom help is laid and you have received him who is the salvation of God through the drawings of his mighty power and you are brought to know and believe that salvation is not to be had in another yea many of you have received the Covenant of God and do indeed know that your sins are washed away in the blood thereof for you have the witness in your selves and the word of reconciliation is selt and known in your hearts whereby abundance of peace and joy unspeakable is witnessed and the Kingdom is come of which there is no end and some of you are placed together therein in Christ Iesus and many others of you the called of the Lord are travelling thitherwards through the righteous Iudgements of the Lord in the spiritual warsare and in the faith and patience of the Lambe Now my Friends be you stedfast in the truth of God received you have been a suffering people most of the time since the Lord hath brought you in any measure into the obedience of his glorious Truth and Gospel which is the power of God and you who have abode in his fear and singly given up to his will you have mightily been preserved and you have felt the hand of a tender Father upholding you and giving you peace and content when you have lost much of this world and the honour and pleasures thereof for his names sake Oh Friends He hath not been wanting unto you he hath seen your sufferings and hath looked upon your afflictions and hath ministred strength proportionable thereunto that you might not faint nor be weary Oh! let not his mercies and fatherly care and loving kindness be forgotten by any of you but let them for ever be had in remembrance so shall the reward be witnessed Now Friends the Lord hath suffered a Cloud a Mist as it were to spread it self in these Nations whereby an evil favour is gone forth which by fire must be taken away in which he will yet further try his people that they may be as gold separated clearly from the dross and that they may indeed be truly gathered redeemed from the earth and all earthly things and that they may wholly look unto him for deliverance and know that he indeed is the alone refuge hiding place in the day of distress Therfore let all who knows the power of God retire inward and watch in the light of the Lambe that you may seel the movings of the life in your own vessels and be kept in obedience to its drawings and leadings in this day of tryall temptation and darknesse which is spreading it self for a moment mark that least any of you be scattered for the enemies work is and will be to seek to draw you from your strength and true guide which where he attains it great will be the sorrow and loss of such Therefore my dearly beloved friends who have tasted how good the Lord is in the tender bowels of Christ I beseech you be servent in love to God and one towards another and be watchful in the Light and therein watch one over another and strengthen and comfort and encourage and build up one another in the work and service of the Lord And if any through the temptation of the enemy hath at any time spoken or done any wrong to another even as God in Christ forgave you so freely forgive ye one another and be ye plain hearted one to another and be ye reconciled in that which destroys all prejudice and purges out all hard thoughts that so the unity may be witnessed in that love which thinks no evil and the one Head and Master over all submitted unto and let the gathering be unto him alone that so the blessing may be multiplied in and amongst you unto the glory and praise of him that gives the encrease And be diligent in meeting together whilst you may in the name and power of the Lord and be watchful in the measure of the life of God that you may feel your strength renewed and increased in the inward man For Friends this is a day which will try every ones strength therefore dwell in the power in which the true gathering is that ye may not scatter abroad for he that gathers not scatters abroad and he that goes from the drawings of the power gathers not Now Friends as ye keep in the drawings and springings of the invisible life ye will be knit together in one life and there will be no striving who shall be greatest but every one will be serving the Lord in their several places and measures and one another in love and as this is abode in the weak in somethings and at sometimes may help the strong and the stronger in other things may help the weak Oh Friends be as Children of one Father dwelling in innocency and love together helping one another Be ye indeed as members of one body knowing that the nourishment to the several members thereof comes from one head and considering that every member hath not the same office yet of exceeding service as each moves and acts in true love to the body and therefore ought to be born and owned in their respective places and if any member would act any thing that might hurt the body or any part of it either through being out of the sence what is of service to the body or otherwise then if another member or members be made sensible of the same it or they are bound in love to the body to seek to hinder the same and in tender love to restore the erring member that so the body may be kept in true order and every member seeking the good one of another Oh Friends consider how the members even of the true natural body serve one another in love how does one cover another how does one bear and strain and labour for the good of each other to help one another and how much more ought these things to abound in the spirituall body of which Christ is the head And now that which chiefly lies upon me at present to you is this That ye all in the feeling of the pure Life and power of God
may keep and that where there hath been any watching for advantage by any among you against one another or strife of words or prejudice or striving to lord it one over another or strangeness one towards each other that these things be utterly laid aside and resisted for where these things or any of them take place they eat as doth a canker and devoure the babe which should inherit the promises and receive the blessing and that in tender bowels of love ye receive and embrace one another and that all whatsoever hath tended to the contrary in any may die and be sorgotten as if it had never been that so the birth immortal which hath been quenched in some may spring and grow in the vertue of the Father that its strong crys both in the male and in the fâ—male may pierce through the clouds reach unto the Father of Life power and wrestle with him untill the blessing be given abundantly yea until he make bare his arme in the sight of his enemies that the oâ—pressour may cease and the land may be swept of evil doers that so a way may be made for the further spreading of his everlasting name and truth and for the exalting of the Kingdome of the Lord Iesus over all the kingdomes of the world Ah Friends the Vnity the Vnity in the Spirit the Love the Love from a pure heart is exceeding precious the yearning of bowels one toward each other in the Lâ—rd the Faith the Patience the Watching and Breathing and groaning and sighing and praying crying in the spirit and power of Emmanuel is able to astonish the Heathen and to confound Armies and Powers that withstand the Kingdome of the Lord Christ and to cause vengeance to come upon such as will not repent and turn to the Lord in the day of their visitation even in the day of Gods long patience and forbearance but set and bend themselves against the Lord and his Anointed Now Friends here is our strength and these are the weapons which we must warr withall against all this ungodliness that is come and coming up Therefore every particular hearken diligently unto the Call of God in the inward parts and wait in the meek princiâ—le of Life that each may know and feel their own proper gift or gifts weapon or weapons and that every one may be kept sensible of the teachings of the Captain of our salvation that so ye may be expert in handling and using of it or them to the glory of him who hath called you to war against Babylon And dear Friends if any who loves the truth be yet further oppressed and their goods spoiled by the false Prophet or Beast as many will be Oh! be ye tender hearted towards such and know that the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and they that follow the Lambe are redeemed from the earth Therefore ye who know the life dwell in it that your redemption from all earthly things may be witnessed and that your bodies and estates may freely be given up to serve the Lord and one another whilest you are suffered to enjoy them Friends I know many of your bodies and estates have been and yet are so given up But these things I speak by way of remembrance to stir up the pure mind in all who breath after the truth that love unfeigned may be maintained and increased among you that ye may be all as Children of one family dwelling together in unity and peace contented with the will of the Father and be not at all discouraged or daunted because of the strength and malice and cruelty that is in the Adversary but be still and patient in the faith and stand out of all mortals in the sence of the invisible immortal power of God and in that meet oft together and visit one another whilest you may and be as Lambs amongst Wolves and the Lord our God shall appear for us and fight against our enemies as he fought in the dayes of old against the enemies of his Seed yea he shall confound our enemies and bring them to nought and bring liberty to his people when he hath tryed them to the full be patient and doubt not though the day must be hot yet it shall be but short for the Elects sake Watch and look not out He that will save his life shall loose it but he that is willing to part with it shall find it eternally So the endlesse eternal Father of Life of Power of Wisdom of Peace of Love of Salvation gather and knit and unite you together and preserve and keep you in the melting power and love of the Lambe that ye may be as a garden of spices that your savour may be pleasant unto the Lord and unto all that breath after him in this the day of tryal Amen Ah my dear Friends you have had a large and glorious day allowed you for the begetting and gathering of you into the precious faith and the unity thereof and many precious opportunities have you had for the assembling your selves together in the name of the Lord and plentiously hath his eternal sweet power and life been manifested in and among you and as you have waited therein Oh! how have you felt the blood of the everlasting Covenant the life of Jesus purging and purifying your Consciences that therein you might hold the mystery of that saith which is your victory over the world And now my Friends the Lord our God hath seen it good that you may yet be tryed yea you must further be tryed your faith your strength your patience must all be tryed and that by fire as I said before that a pure people you may be who stands and endures the tryal unto the Lord yea a glorious people shall ye be whose beauty and splendour shall fill the earth Therefore my dearly beloved in the Lord be watchful I beseech you and turn in and keep low in the feeling of the eternal Power in your own vessels and know that every particulars strength lyeth there and every particular will be tried Therefore keep to your particular strength and be obodient to the Power in all its movings that so by it your minds may be drawn off all things that can or may change and come to an end and become wholly centered in the unchangeable endless life of God Then my Friends nothing can harm you But verily if any of your affections be centered in Husbands Wives Children or any earthen vessel or visible thing whatsoever so as that you cannot be willing to part with all if it be required at your hands then may your sufferings be great and dangerous unto you Therefore I beseech you be ye followers of the invisible Life of Jesus in all its appearances and drawings that so by it you may be taught how to use all visible changeable things unto the Glory of the Lord whilest you are permitted to enjoy them And that you may be made willing